I'm having some issues getting Pulumi to read Environment Variables. Specifically I want to use the

ARM_

environment variables to configure the Azure Native provider to use a Service Principal. I'm doing a quick and dirty check before my Program runs to check that the environment variables are all set...

foreach (DictionaryEntry e in Environment.GetEnvironmentVariables())
    {
        if (e.Key.ToString()!.StartsWith("ARM")) Console.WriteLine(e.Key + ":" + e.Value);
    }

And this returns exactly what I would expect to see...

ARM_CLIENT_ID:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ARM_TENANT_ID:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ARM_CLIENT_SECRET:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yet when the Program runs it is still trying to use the Azure CLI:

error: obtain subscription() from Azure CLI: parsing json result from the Azure CLI: waiting for the Azure CLI: exit status 1: ERROR: No subscription found. Run 'az account set' to select a subscription.

Am I missing something?

are you passing those env vars to a provider?

Hey @billowy-army-68599 - thanks for responding! Not in this instance - my assumption was that the Provider would look for the presence of the environment variables in the same way it detects the authentication context of the az CLI? When I did try passing the parameters into the Azure Provider manually...

Provider = new Provider("azure-provider", new ProviderArgs()
        {
            Environment = "public",
            ClientId = AppConfig.GetValue<string>("ARM_CLIENT_ID"),
            ClientSecret = AppConfig.GetValue<string>("ARM_CLIENT_SECRET"),
            TenantId = AppConfig.GetValue<string>("ARM_TENANT_ID"),
            SubscriptionId = AppConfig.GetValue<string>("ARM_SUBSCRIPTION_ID")
        });

...I got an error stating that location had not been set...

azure-native:resources:ResourceGroup resource 'rg-dev-sta-marketplace-eus-001' has a problem: missing required property 'location'. Either set it explicitly or configure it with 'pulumi config set azure-native:location <value>'.

but there is no Location property on the Provider, and I have already set the

azure-native:location

in my stack config.